abstract：:Although several authors have reported single cases illustrative of some ultrasonographic characteristic of parathyroid carcinoma, the value of ultrasonography for diagnosing this entity remains to be determined. The purpose of our study was to investigate the ultrasonographic features of parathyroid carcinoma in a la...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hara H,Igarashi A,Yano Y,Yashiro T,Ueno E,Aiyoshi Y,Ito K,Obara T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been unequivocally implicated as a mediator of diabetic complications. The present study was designed to evaluate the RAS in non-insulin dependent diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy. Plasma renin activity, plasma angiotensin II and serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (AC...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nicola W,Sidhom G,El Khyat Z,Ibrahim S,Salah A,El Sayed A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of isolated ACTH deficiency who developed autoimmune-mediated hypothyroidism and still showed impaired water diuresis during glucocorticoid replacement therapy is reported. A 45-year-old woman was initially admitted for nausea, vomiting, and general malaise. Her serum sodium and plasma osmolality, ACTH and cort...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kageyama Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), which has been reported in patients with type 1 diabetes, was measured in type 2 diabetes, especially in patients with antibodies to GAD initially diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes (anti-GAD+ type 2 diabetes). W...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Fukui M,Nakamura N,Nakano K,Kajiyama S,Matsuo S,Obayashi H,Ohta M,Shigeta M,Shigeta H,Kitagawa Y,Kondo M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KRN568 is a calcimimetic compound which acts on the calcium sensing receptors (CaR) on the parathyroid gland to suppress secretion of PTH. A recent report has demonstrated that CaRs are expressed on cultured human antral gastrin cells and that gastrin secretion is stimulated by an increase in extracellular calcium lev...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Igarashi T,Ogata E,Maruyama K,Fukuda T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of occult small thyroid nodules found by ultrasonography is sometimes problematic. Self-palpation may be utilized in the follow-up of these nodules. We developed a method of thyroid self-examination (TSE). We examined the size of the nodules palpable by this method by ultrasonography. In 78 patients exa...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takano T,Hasegawa Y,Amino N

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketoconazole is an imidazole derivative used to treat systemic and superficial mycoses by inhibiting sterol synthesis in fungi. The drug impairs steroid hormone synthesis by blocking mitochondrial P450-dependent enzyme systems. Because of its potent inhibitory effects on adrenal steroidogenesis, ketoconazole is valuab...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Chou SC,Lin JD

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In each estrous cycle not all follicles recruited grow to ovulate, as some degenerate through the process of atresia. Apoptosis is the mechanism underlying follicle atresia. TGF-beta1 has been implicated in the induction and promotion of apoptosis in many cell types and it is expressed in the ovary. In this study immu...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Christopher B

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preoperative molecular-based diagnostic technique for thyroid papillary and anaplastic carcinomas was recently developed to detect oncofetal fibronectin (onfFN) messenger RNA (mRNA) in fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) by means of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). We report two cases of th...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takano T,Shiba E,Tada H,Yoshimura H,Yoshida K,Doi R,Amino N

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the value of thyroxine administration to prevent recurrence after bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter. Patients that had benign multinodular goiter were operated on with the same surgical principles: ligation of both superior and inferior thyroid arteries on both sid...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kulaçoglu H,Dener C,Ziraman I,Kama NA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) is one of the most common causes of rickets in infancy and childhood. Combination therapy of vitamin D and phosphate is generally used for patients with XLH. Effect of treatment of vitamin D and phosphate during childhood on final height of XLH has to be elucidated in Japanese. ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyamoto J,Koto S,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) secreted from the pituitary is essential for postnatal growth in animals. GH exerts its actions by a direct effect on target organs and by stimulating insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) production. In the human pituitary, there is a naturally occurring variant protein which has a molecular mass o...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yoshizato H,Tanaka M,Fujikawa T,Higashimoto Y,Shimizu A,Nakashima K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Surgical removal of growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas (GHomas) becomes difficult when they invade the cavernous sinus (CS). We investigated the relation among tumor proliferative potential, tumor volume and invasion of GHomas to CS. MATERIALS & METHODS:15 patients with GHoma aged 20-59 years were enr...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Iuchi S,Saeki N,Uchino Y,Higuchi Y,Tatsuno I,Nakamura S,Yasuda T,Yamaura A

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 7-year-old patient of short stature who had normal GH secretion, but a very low serum IGF-I level. On admittance, his height and weight were 102.2 cm (-3.8S.D.) and 15.7 kg (-1.8S.D.), respectively. His bone age was 2 years and 8 months. The serum GH responses to insulin, glucagon and L-dopa we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mochizuki D,Kodama H,Kubota K,Mori Y,Nakamoto N,Kobayashi M,Yanagawa Y,Kaji M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) is a benign syndrome with elevated levels of serum calcium, relative hypocalciuria, and non-suppressed serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. FHH usually occurs by a heterozygous mutation of the calcium sensing receptor (Casr), but some FHH patients show no mutations of the ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kanazawa H,Tanaka H,Kodama S,Moriwake A,Kobayashi M,Seino Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betacellulin (BTC) purified from mouse beta cell tumor (betaTC-3) is a new member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family which can bind receptor tyrosine kinase, EGF receptor (erbB1) and erbB4. It has been demonstrated that proBTC mRNA was abundantly expressed in human pancreas tissue, and that BTC converted amyl...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyagawa J,Hanafusa O,Sasada R,Yamamoto K,Igarashi K,Yamamori K,Seno M,Tada H,Nammo T,Li M,Yamagata K,Nakajima H,Namba M,Kuwajima M,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to examine the possible functional relationship between melatonin and hypothalamic transmitters, endogenous opioids and excitatory amino acids in controlling gonadotropin secretion in ovariectomized estrogen-primed rats. An intravenous injection of naloxone (mu opioid receptor antagonist), ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Akema T,Ikeda T,Chiba A,Sugiyama H,Sato I,Kimura F,Toyoda J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallmann syndrome is defined by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia, for which three modes of transmission have been described: X-linked, autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant. The KAL1 gene, responsible for the X-linked form of the disease, has been isolated and its intron-exon organizat...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Izumi Y,Tatsumi K,Okamoto S,Hosokawa A,Ueno S,Fukui H,Amino N

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that troglitazone has the capacity to improve insulin resistance. The present study was undertaken to determine the effect of troglitazone on in vivo insulin action, the activities of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (3-HADH) in muscle, and m...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Oshida Y,Kako M,Nakai N,Shimomura Y,Li L,Sato J,Ohsawa I,Sato Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is known to stimulate the synthesis and secretion of various proinflammatory cytokines in both the peripheral immune cells and the brain. Yet, the relative contribution of peripheral and central cytokines to the LPS-induced activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis is still poorly u...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kakizaki Y,Watanobe H,Kohsaka A,Suda T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, nine patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy with positive clinical activity score (CAS), who were either unresponsive or not suitable for glucocorticoid treatment, were given 100 microg of octreotide three times daily, subcutaneously, for three months. The mean age was 49+/-13 years. All patients were und...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Uysal AR,Corapçioğlu D,Tonyukuk VC,Güllü S,Sav H,Kamel N,Erdoğan G

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-tau (IFNtau) is produced by the trophectoderm of ruminant ungulates and its gene transactivation in vitro has so far been achieved only in human choriocarcinoma cells, JAR and JEG3. To examine if ovine IFNtau gene transactivation could be induced in cells other than JAR or JEG3 cells and its activation coul...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamaguchi H,Ikeda Y,Taylor A,Katsumura M,Miyazawa T,Takahashi E,Imakawa K,Sakai S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the specific changes in gene expression in thyroid carcinomas, we performed sequence specific-differential display (SS-DD) analysis by using a specific degenerate primer for the superfamily of the small G protein. After subcloning and sequencing analysis, one of the genes that showed decreased expression in...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Liu G,Takano T,Matsuzuka F,Higashiyama T,Kuma K,Amino N

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case report of an 18-year-old man with central diabetes incipidus (DI). An MRI done three months after the onset of the DI did not disclose a responsible lesion. Four months later, a second MRI showed the location of the tumor origin at the upper pituitary stalk and median eminence. Eight months later, the t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saeki N,Uchida D,Tatsuno I,Saito Y,Yamaura A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this prospective study was to characterize the changes in serum levels of two proteins produced during the synthesis and degradation of type I collagen, i.e., the carboxyterminal propeptide of type I procollagen (PICP) and the pyridinoline cross-linked carboxyterminal telopeptide of type I collagen (ICT...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yasumizu T,Fukada Y,Hoshi K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troglitazone (T) and d-chiroinositol (DCI) have been reported to improve insulin resistance associated with obesity and NIDDM. We tested whether these compounds counteract the insulin antagonistic effects of recombinant human GH. Male Wistar rats were allocated to 4 different treatment groups, rhGH (n=8), rhGH+T (n=7)...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sugimoto M,Takeda N,Hattori J,Yoshino K,Nakashima K,Okumura S,Ishimori M,Yasuda K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that there is an inverse relationship between serum sodium (Na) and potassium (K) levels in patients with diabetic coma. The present study was undertaken to determine whether such an inverse relation depends upon plasma glucose levels in diabetic patients for their glycemic control. We examined tw...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saito T,Ishikawa S,Higashiyama M,Nakamura T,Rokkaku K,Hayashi H,Kusaka I,Nagasaka S,Saito T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hope of understanding possible roles of estrogen during early embryogenesis, we examined the expression of both estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) and ER beta, a recently cloned novel subtype, in mouse oocytes and preimplantation embryos by means of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). To inves...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hiroi H,Momoeda M,Inoue S,Tsuchiya F,Matsumi H,Tsutsumi O,Muramatsu M,Taketani Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anovulatory patients ovulation is usually induced by clomiphene citrate (CC) or gonadotropin therapy, but in the case of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), diagnosed by the presence of several micropolycysts in the ovaries and a high LH/FSH ratio in the serum, CC is only minimally effective, and side effects are oft...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sakai A,Kondo Z,Kamei K,Izumi S,Sumi K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene responsible for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) has recently been cloned, and its germline mutations were identified in patients with this syndrome. The majority of the mutations, frameshift or nonsense mutations, are expected to result in a loss of function of the gene product menin. Since the con...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyauchi A,Sato M,Matsubara S,Ohye H,Kihara M,Matsusaka K,Nishitani A,Takahara J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism who had high serum intact PTH levels for over 16 months after parathyroidectomy without signs of recurrence or persistence of the disease. The patient was a 48-year-old female who appeared well nourished (body mass index, 23.7). She was received subtotal gast...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mimura Y,Kanauchi H,Ogawa T,Ohkura F,Kaminishi M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for further treatment of acromegaly with high plasma GH and IGF-I levels after transsphenoidal adenomectomy and subsequent treatment with bromocriptine. Physical examination and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an active acromegalic appearance with residual pitui...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Matsuno M,Sohmiya M,Yamamoto H,Kato Y

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is a non-specific symptom which may be associated with Addison's disease and several causes had been demonstrated in the aetiology. We describe a patient with Addison's disease who was suffering from chronic diarrhea for three months. She was diagnosed as having collagenous colitis and successfully treated wi...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Unlühizarci K,Bayram F,Ozbakir O,Kirgin A,Patiroglu T,Yücesoy M,Keleştimur F

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare the bone aging process in Werner's syndrome, a disease characterized by premature aging, and that in natural aging, we have assessed the bone status in a total of 19 cases (11 males and eight postmenopausal females) with Werner's syndrome. The spinal deformity index was determined for a total of 87...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shiraki M,Aoki C,Goto M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two siblings with classic simple virilizing 21-hydroxylase deficiency whose neonatal screening for serum 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) gave normal results. The proband, a girl with clitoromegaly whose screening 17-OHP value had been 9.2 ng/ml, was diagnosed at the age of 6 months, and her elder bro...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shinohara O,Ishiguro H,Shinagawa T,Kubota C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the prevalence of lymphocytic infiltrate in a large series of pituitary adenomas, we retrospectively studied tumor tissues from 1400 patients. Based on immunocytochemical data, tumors were classified as PRL (n=411), multihormonal (n=310), immunonegative (n=275), ACTH (n=166), GH (n=137), alpha subunit (n=4...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Heshmati HM,Kujas M,Casanova S,Wollan PC,Racadot J,Van Effenterre R,Derome PJ,Turpin G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and its agonists have been known to directly affect steroid hormone production in human granulosa cells. In this study, we examined effects of GnRH on Ca2+ mobilization, protein kinase C activity and steroidogenesis of human granulosa cells. Human granulosa cells were harvested by...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hori H,Uemura T,Minaguchi H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported three cases of severe hypertriglyceridemia caused by tamoxifen-treatment after breast cancer surgery. In that report we showed that one of the three patients had apo E3/3 and another had E4/2 phenotype. There are few data about the relationship between apoprotein E phenotype, one of modifiers of l...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hozumi Y,Kawano M,Saito T,Miyata M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the concentration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in platelets, serum and plasma obtained from 47 patients with Graves' disease, 7 with hypothyroidism and 20 healthy subjects. The platelets of the subjects were collected from platelet rich plasma and lysed by freezing and thawing. Subsequently the platel...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Okada M,Kamiya Y,Ito J,Yoshimata T,Kawaguchi M,Shibata H,Fujinami T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1) is rarely reported in Japanese and other oriental populations. To examine if there is a racial difference in the prevalence of MEN 1, we initiated extensive work on patients with endocrine tumors for additional lesions, and annual screening of family members of affected pati...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Katai M,Sakurai A,Itakura Y,Ikeo Y,Nakajima K,Hara M,Iijima S,Kaneko T,Kobayashi M,Ichikawa K,Aizawa T,Hashizume K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00